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Definition of Octopods
1. octopod [n] - See also: octopod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octopods
Literary usage of Octopods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... upon Thyself "—English and American Banks—Dealing in Futures—Dog Eat Dog—Two
Letters—Commercial octopods—Trusts in America and England—The Standard Oil ..."
2. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"octopods. Cuttle-fish and other octopods are determined foes of the oyster.
Deep-sea fishermen tell us that wherever octopods are dredged up in considerable ..."
3. Aquarium notes. The octopus; or, The 'devil-fish' of fiction and of fact by Henry Lee (1875)
"The native fishermen, in general, sell their octopods to the merchants in anticipation,
... Another practice is also followed for the purchase of octopods. ..."
4. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"In the octopods there is a communication between the ovarian sac and the aquiferous
... In the octopods there are two oviducts, which in Argonauta and Trem- ..."
5. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1887)
"I remember once getting, in Italy, a dish of small octopods, which would have
been very good, if at every stroke of the fork the ink had not spurted out, ..."
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